Went bass fishing today
 

Got a late start,, something about my wife not waking me up this
morning, She said Oh I forgot, yeah right.

Went to Walker County lake, a state lake, 60 acres, that they sell
22,000 daily fishing permits a year (Heavily fished for such a small
lake) they stock cat fish in it, and sometimes blue gills, but they have
never stocked bass or crappie. 50% of the bass fishermen are catch and
eat, so this lake has a good supply of LARGE bass in it. They average 6
or more 10 +'s a year "out" of it. So far this year a 12 lber came "out"
of it.

I left late, so I left the boat at home (major mistake today) The decent
bass had already moved out from the shore by the time I got there. I
talked to a few bank bassers, who told me of numerous large fish they
had seen up to an hour before I arrived, but only one 3 lber was taken.

Water temp was 85 degrees, 3 1/2 foot visibility

Near Blue Bird day

Wind was light but we had some strong gust from no where about every ten
min. or so.

About 30 bank fishermen, some had a few early morning cat fish on
stringers, very few gills caught, and only that one 3 pound bass.

I started with that new Storm Rattle Wildeye Split Tail .

I practiced a few min. wiggling it where I could watch the lure, I drew
a small crowd just watching the lure do it's thing. It took a few min to
get the rod tip action just right, to get the best fish catching action
from it, but it was Awesome. This will be a killer lure wiggled

I spent the next hour walking the bank and working the lure , I did not
even get a nibble, You can't catch fish when they are not there, even if
it's the best presentation in the world.

Although many of the bank fishermen were fishing for blue gills with
crickets and worms, nothing was being caught, I decided to try wiggling
with my tiny worm, no decent bass around, so why not. I switched to my 9
1/2 ft St Croix steel head rod and 4# line. I put a #10 True Turn long
shank on it, a 1/8 inch by 2 1/2 inch purple worm, then tied on a Wiggle
Rig. First cast I caught a 5 inch large mouth. I ended up catching a
dozen more large mouths up to about 10 inches, and somewhere around 30
blue gills (most under eating size) over the next two hours, no one else
caught a single fish during this time with their worms and crickets. No
doubt about it, all of the decent fish where either in deeper water, or
suspended in deeper water. I could only cast to a water depth of around
6 feet. Last week at the same time I was catching many decent fish this
late in the day from the bank. I either have to get there earlier, or
take the boat

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Rodney Long
SpecTastic tackle company

http://spectastictackle.com/